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Lol. LP is now the most talk about in Nigeria.

Obi is indeed, A͟ M͟A͟N͟ O͟F͟ G͟R͟A͟C͟E͟.

Lagos made Bola TINUBU. He didn't make Lagos. and Nigeria owes him nothing. Those who feed from his table should go and pay him back.

Lagos made Bola TINUBU. He didn't make Lagos. and Nigeria owes him nothing. Those who feed from his table should go and pay him back.

Lagos made Bola TINUBU. He didn't make Lagos. and Nigeria owes him nothing. Those who feed from his table should go and pay him back.

Lagos made Bola TINUBU. He didn't make Lagos. and Nigeria owes him nothing. Those who feed from his table should go and pay him back.

etrouble:
Memorize this very well. You will need to sing it many times after Tinubu is sworn in as President next year

hope on rigging...

Surely, technology will prove you wrong this time

Inec should be careful this time.

We move!


Lagos made Bola TINUBU. He didn't make Lagos. and Nigeria owes him nothing. Those who feed from his table should go and pay him back.

Painful

Anything that will pull down this evil party is welcome

Such a terrible state of the country that a sane person want to hand over to unstable person.

God forbid bat-thing




Let vote wisely... Let vote competence

Failure

To this end...

Money is not everything

Money fail
Fame fail

But G͜͡O͜͡O͜͡D͜͡ C͜͡O͜͡N͜͡D͜͡U͜͡C͜͡T͜͡
Will rise you up

This bank drench my money

people like this doesn't know how hot the sun is




I wish I was given a chance to choose how to come to this world

They should free the guy for all these to stop na

Go and win bro as we will Obidiently win next year to make Nigeria your dream home.


Na bad government pursued you go give Britain

Congrats to them.

Read Nigeria history


culture


WHO SOLD NIGERIA
TO THE BRITISH FOR £865K IN 1899?
By Cheta Nwanze
26 July 2019 | 2:10 pm

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.


Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence.


King Koko. Photo Nairaland

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions.


Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie. Photo Sir Hubert von Herkomer

By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).


By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and small pox


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goslowgoslow:
I don't think you are mentally okay! Disrespectful bigot!

why don't you comment with something reasonable

So you’ll walk to a polling booth on Election Day, remember a dollar at N650, remember ASUU strike, remember a bag of rice at N32k, remember how unsafe we’ve been, remember banditry, insecurity, hyper inflation and still vote for the APC?

Talk to me, what’s the problem?

goslowgoslow:
And you have to be rude to tell me that? You bastard son of a bitch!

So you’ll walk to a polling booth on Election Day, remember a dollar at N650, remember ASUU strike, remember a bag of rice at N32k, remember how unsafe we’ve been, remember banditry, insecurity, hyper inflation and still vote for the APC?

Talk to me, what’s the problem?

goslowgoslow:
What do you people want unity now? What happened to the Biafra dream? Suddenly they have forgotten their brother that is in prison. The reason you all cannot be trusted.

I'm not Igbo, derange head.

walefresh3:
Shutup we don go verify...

These are the results...
The Lamentations of your nyamiri brothers den bad... PETER OBI IS A FAILURE...

he will stop campaigning if you can prove in court.

He will stop campaigning if you can tell us how tinubu make his money

If he stop campaigning if can tell us that tinubu is not drug dealer

Go and verify if I misused 1% of State fund entrusted to me

Go and verify if I owe salary or pension throughout my tenure

Go and verify if I'm collecting pension since I left office

Go and verify if I have used the government money mean for the citizens to enriched myself.

Go and verify if I didn't invest so much on education to better the system.

My ulterior desires is to give hope to the frustrated youth of this country.

My ulterior desires is to turn Nigeria from consumption to productive nation.

Personally to me...obi will bring Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo together.



FOR THE FIRST TIME, NIGERIA WILL ENJOY UNITY

We all need each other to make Nigeria great nation




Vote Obi

FERNANDEZISBACK:
I'm gonna miss this lady..
For those ranters blaming and hating on our queen..Nothing but nothing is taught about the good that the British did in their colonies..but only the far left “Everything they did was evil”...
Never a mention that they brought education..industry..efficient farming and democracy...
Never a mention that Slavery had been going on for hundreds of years before the Europeans joined in..

Never a mention of them putting a stops to slavery and cannibalism in their colonies or of stopping honour killings and forcing women to be burnt to death when their husbands died...
And never a mention that it was Britain that eventually banned the slave trade and used it's own Royal Navy at its own expense to police the oceans.. freeing slaves and prosecuting entire crews...

this your mentioned... Is there any source to confirm it

Hello

Buhari effect